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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus, during the middle of the 1500's, thought that the sun was the cent of the universe rather that the sun. -
Galileo Galilei
Following Nicolaus Copernicus work, Galilie used Copernicus's work to help confirm the positioning and movement of stars. -
Rene Descartes
This french philospher disagreed with the concept of dualism. Instead he believed that the body's movements, sensations, and perceptions were all controlled by the mind. -
Discoverys of the 19th century
Throughout the nineteenth century many discoverys about humas were made that later helped to develope psychology. ----*Cells were found as building blocks of life.
*Periodic table was made.
*Better understanding of atomic forces. -
Wertheimer, Kohler, Koffka
Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Koffka all dissagreed with sturcturalism and behaviorism. They argued that preception is more than the sum of parts, it involves the whole pattern. -
Sir Francis Galton
Galton wanted to understand how heredity influences a person's abilities, character, and behavior. He traced families and found greatness runs in them , thus genius or eminence is hereditary. -
Wilhelm Wundt
Started the Laboratory of Psychology and established modern psychology. He studied the human mind and how it works. He also developed a method of self-observation called introspection. -
William James
He taught the first class of psychology at Harvard University and is known as the "father of psychology." He also wrote the first psychology textbooks. -
Mary Whiton Calkins
Calkins became the first full psychology professor at Wellesley College. She was also the first female to become president of not only the American Psychological Association but also the American Philosophical Association. -
Sigmond Freud
Freud, a physician, was interested in the unconscious mind. He developed a new method called "free association" that he used to test the mind. He came up with the theory of personality. -
Ivan Pavlov
Pavlov was the pioneer of Behavioral Psychology. He proformed a famous experiment with a tuning fork and a dog. -
John B. Watson
Watson believed that psychology should concern itself only with observable behaviors. -
B. F. Skinner
Skinner introduced the concept of reinforcement. He attemted to show how his laboratory techniques might be applied to society as a whole. -
Maslow, Rogers, May
During the 60's, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Rollo May described human nature as evolving and self-directed. It differs from behaviorism and psychoanalysis in that it does not view humans as being controlled by events in the environment. -
Leonard Doob
Doob was a socioculture psychologist who illustrated the cultural implications of a simple reflexive behavior- a sneeze. -
Piaget, Chomsky, Festinger
since the 1950's cognitive psychology has benifited from Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, Leon Festinger. Cognitivists focus on how we store, process and use information and how this information influences our thinking, language, pronlem solving and creativity.
